Shia LaBeouf enjoys the company of Megan Fox
Transformers may not be as secretive a project as some of the superhero sequels we're itching for info on, but star Shia LaBeouf sure manages to keep things interesting every time he hypes it up. He's making some big promises for this summer's epic.
Shia LaBeouf on Transformers
"I've seen more of the film," he revealed. "The movie's insane. It's going to do for action what The Matrix did for action. ILM said, and this is the company that does like Star Wars and Superman. They do all the big ones, Pirates of The Caribbean, they said they'd never worked on anything like this. They'd never done graphics at this level. This is the most insane thing they've ever done. They said if they were to present their company to anybody, it would be that movie."
And this isn't just actor hype. LaBeouf is like us, he grew up with Autobots and Decepticons. As one of us, he's aware of skepticism about recent casting announcements, like Hugo Weaving as the new voice of Megatron.
"Look, as long as you make sure Welker is in and you make sure that Cullen is Optimus. If anyone else is Optimus the movie is terrible. It has to be Cullen. Now Welker is older, much older than Cullen and his voice has changed. I’ve heard him in sessions. He’d be great as another robot but to play Megatron you need somebody powerful and Hugo Weaving is powerful. I think its great casting to but I think the fans are going to have an issue with it."
LaBeouf did his share of complaining as production wrapped. Michael Bay works his guys hard. But now that footage is showing up, LaBeouf sees the method. "People who think he's not an actor's director, its garbage, because he goes out of his way to put you in harm's way so you can respond accordingly. If you want a green screen, that's less of an actor's director. That's a director who's just putting you out there. 'Do your thing, girl. I'm not going to do nothing. There's a green screen and there's a robot and your car's blowing up. Action.' But he doesn't do that. He'll put a robot there and he'll blow the car up and he'll go out of the way to do the scene so you can respond accordingly."
Bay may spend hundreds of millions of dollars, but it looks like billions compared to other coddled productions. "Because he’s not putting all the actors in huge trailers, and we’re not staying in four class resorts and craft service isn’t shrimp cocktail. It’s a movie set and all the money is going into the film. You feel it on set. You know none of us got paid millions of dollars to be in that movie. That’s one of the lowest paying jobs I’ve been in, in my career. And that’s the way it goes. You do that movie not because of the paycheck, I know that everybody thinks, 'Oh, you’re in Transformers because of the paycheck.' And I’m sure eventually it will lead to a paycheck, when you have a Japanese following and a following you never had, but the initial being in the movie was never a paycheck. None of us got paid above $70,000 dollars. We were all there to blow shit up."
Transformers opens to theatres on July 4th.
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